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The French and British were fighting over the Ohio river valley, in the end France lost and gave up its north American land but also giving Britain crippling debt.
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Made by the British for the colonists, ordered them to not expand past the Appalachian mountains, increased tensions. -
A tax on sugar and molasses, was made because of the huge debt of the F and I war.
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A tax on documents, paper, and playing cards. Made for the same reason as the sugar act but made the already frustrated colonists even angrier. -
A group of colonists were rioting against a group of redcoats in Boston, the colonists were throwing rocks and other sharp objects at the redcoats so they shot the colonists and killed some. -
Another tax made by Britain, a tax that made the colonies exclusively buy tea from British companies. -
A group called the sons of liberty dressed up as natives and walked to a tea boat and began throwing barrels of tea into the Boston harbor in protest of the tea act. -
Britain’s response to the Boston tea party, closed the Boston harbor, forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers, and got rid of elections for the Massachusetts government and put appointed officials in. -
First battle of the revolutionary war, The British wanted to take rebel leaders and destroy the colonist's weapons, the americans won. -
When the colonists wanted to make peace with great Britain because they did not want to go to war with them this included a demand to repeal all the acts, they did not listen.
